Akeeba Backup for Joomla!

Friday, 04 December 2015 05:50 CST

houba_houbi

Hello

I bought the akeeba pro to make backups with cron jobs for my 3 profiles (database, database et files in jpa et zip).
But I just discover that my webhost Ovh for shared hostings doesn't support to have parameters in the url for the cron jobs ! So only something like this 'www/cli/akeeba-backup.php'.
It works but of course only for the default profile.
Have you an idea to make my 3 backups in an another way by executing a script ? or ?

Thanks a lot and sorry for my poor english (I am french)
Regards
Cathy

Friday, 04 December 2015 07:46 CST

tampe125

Hello Cathy,

there's no need to append any parameter for the url.
You have to pass them using the CLI syntax, for example --profile=2. You can find more info inside the documentation.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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Friday, 04 December 2015 07:59 CST

houba_houbi

Hello Davide
Thanks for your quick reply.
Yes I see that in your documentation. If I well understand, I can put this url : "www/cli/akeeba-backup.php --profile=2"
But my webhost doesn't accept this type of url : only letters, numbers -_/. (so no espace, no equal...)
So I don't know how to achieve my backups.
Thanks

Friday, 04 December 2015 08:22 CST

tampe125

Ok, so this is a different problem.
You don't have to use the CLI script, you have to use the Frontend backup feature. However, the problem is not solved, since even using the url with the secret key, you have to supply some options.
Long story short, the service your host is offering is useless.
You have to rely on an external source to trigger backups, we strongly suggest Webcron.org. They're not free, but very cheap (just few cents for every request).

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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Friday, 04 December 2015 10:58 CST

houba_houbi

What a pity I think I bought a pro version for nothing... The documentation for the cron jobs seems to be for "dedicated hostings" and not for "shared hostings" ?

So I have 2 choice :
- run a cron backup with my webhost for just the default backup
- or run with webcron.org a frontend backup with all the choice I want

To make my choice Is the cron backup is better than the frontend backup ?
Thanks

Monday, 07 December 2015 02:16 CST

tampe125

Actually you do not have any choice: you have to rely on an external service.
Even if you don't pass any specific backup profile, you have to tell to the server script to follow all redirects (using --max-redirect=10000).
For each step Akeeba Backup will issue a redirect, if you have a very tiny site you can try to use your host feature, but as soon as it grows larger, there is the concrete chance that the backup process will get interrupted.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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Wednesday, 09 December 2015 03:54 CST

houba_houbi

HI Davide
If I well understand, the redirects are only for the frontend backup method ?
I don't have this problem with the native cron backup ?
Thanks

Wednesday, 09 December 2015 03:55 CST

tampe125

Yes, that's right.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

🇮🇹Italian: native 🇬🇧English: good • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Rome (UTC +1)
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Wednesday, 09 December 2015 03:59 CST

houba_houbi

ok thanks for all your help !

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